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March 15, 2011

Online course: "Forecasting"

I will be instructing an online course on Practical Time Series Forecasting, starting Mar 25, 2010.

The course covers popular statistical forecasting methods in business, as well as various issues that relate to the entire forecasting process, from goal definition and data collection to model deployment.

The course takes place online over 4 weeks and is completely asynchronous. For further details and registration click here.


January 12, 2011

Data Mining Workshop at Technion's Biorobotics Lab

I am conducting a special 3-day workshop at the Technion's mechanical engineering department, introducing data mining through hands-on experience. The workshop takes place in the Biorobotics and Biomechanics Lab on January 10,12,13. For further details see the workshop website.


January 3, 2011

Upcoming talk @ Tel Aviv University: COM-Poisson Regression

I'll be giving a talk on COM-Poisson Regression: A Flexible Model for Count Data on January 11, 2011 (that is, 11/1/11) at 10:30am at Schreiber 309.

For more details, click here.


January 3, 2011

Visit at Indian Statistical Institute

I am starting the new year with a short visit with colleagues at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata. Together with students here we're working on a COM-Poisson extension.


December 11, 2010

Upcoming talks at Indian School of Business

I'll be presenting two talks next week at ISB.

On Friday, Dec 17, I will present "To Explain or To Predict? The Challenge of Prediction in IS Research", as part of the Information Systems seminar series (see timing, location and abstract here).

As part of the International Symposium of Information Systems (ISIS 2010) I will be giving a talk on "Testing Theories with Large Samples: A Superpower Approach". The talk will be on Sunday, Dec 19 at the 10:45am session. For more information and location see here.


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